Privacy Policy

Date: 14th March 2009 at 11:30 am | Filed under: blog | Author: Sam Burdge

Privacy Policy for www.samburdge.co.uk

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At www.samburdge.co.uk, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.samburdge.co.uk and how it is used.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, www.samburdge.co.uk makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons
www.samburdge.co.uk does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense, .

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.samburdge.co.uk send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

www.samburdge.co.uk has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.samburdge.co.uk's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

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Flash Tutorial - Adding an animated shine effect to your logo

Date: 12th February 2009 at 6:14 pm | Filed under: development, flash | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This is a basic flash tutorial which explains how to apply an animated shine effect to a logo or image, as displayed in the example. This technique only really works well with colour logos.

You will need Flash 8 or above, as the effect utilises the filters which were a new addition in version 8. The source file for this project is available for download at the bottom of the tutorial.

Leave a comment if you find this useful!

GETTING STARTED

  1. Open a new flash document
  2. Go to 'File ->Import -> Import to Stage...' (or CTRL+R) and import your logo image.
  3. Move your logo to the top left corner of the stage (position 0,0)
  4. Go to 'Modify -> Document' (CTRL+J) and set your document's height and width to the height and width of your logo image. Set the framerate to 12fps.

CREATING THE SHINE

  1. Create a new layer above the logo layer for your shine
  2. In your new layer draw a white rectangle with no outlines (about 25ph high and the width of your logo)
  3. Select your rectangle and go to 'Modify -> Convert to Symbol' (F8) and choose 'Movie clip' as the symbol type, name it 'shine'.
  4. Double click on your new movieclip to open it, select the rectangle again and repeat step 4, converting it into another new Movie clip, but this time name it 'rectangle'.

ANIMATING THE SHINE

  1. Inside your 'shine' movie create a new keyframe at frame 25. This keyframe will be the point that your rectangle ends at after it has moved accross the logo. Frame 1 will be it's starting point.  See images opposite.
  2. Set the starting point for your rectangle on frame 1. Then go to frame 25 and move it to its ending point. You can also rotate your rectangle as I have done in the opposite example.
  3. Right click on the first keyframe in the timeline and select 'Create Motion Tween' from the dropdown menu.
  4. Press return to preview your animation
  5. You will notice that in my example I have added some blank keyframes to the timeline to add a couple of seconds pause between each shine.

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ADDING THE EFFECTS

  1. Select your 'rectangle' movie clip on frame 1 of the timeline, and open the filters properties ('Windows -> Properties -> Filters').
  2. Click on the plus symbol to add a new filter and select 'blur' from the list.
  3. Set the Blur X and Blur Y values to about 25, and set the quality to Medium. See opposite.
  4. Make sure the same values are set for the blur filter on frame 25.
  5. Go to Scene 1 of your flash project. Select your 'shine' movie clip and in the Properties panel change its Blend mode from 'Normal' to 'Overlay'

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3 Responses to “Flash Tutorial - Adding an animated shine effect to your logo”

  • Comment by vale
    Date: April 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Hi!
    I’ve been searching for such a tutorial for a long time!thank you!!
    I just wanted to ask if it’s possible to activate the effect on rollover with actionscript, it would be for a website!
    thank you very much,
    Valentina

  • Comment by Sam Burdge
    Date: April 2nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    Hi Valentina

    You could attach the effect to a button or movie clip rollover. You could attatch it to the rollover state of a button without any actionscript. You could also activate the rollover effect in as2 using the following method:
    1. Select the shine (Symbol 3) movieclip and give it the instance name ’shine’
    2. Add this action to frame 1 of the ’shine’ movie clip:
    stop();
    3. Create a button. you could make it transparent by setting it’s alpha to 0.
    4. Add this action to the button:
    on (rollOver) {
    shine.play();
    }

    I hope this helps.

    Sam

  • Comment by Valentina
    Date: April 8th, 2009 at 8:17 am

    Hi Sam and thank you very much for your infos. I am a newbie of flash and actionscript so I always need every step to be clear like in your tutorial to do it :)
    Could u help me out with a sample flash file?you could send it to my email if that’s not a problem for you.
    I would really like to understand both ways to make such a rollover button, love your tutorial!
    thank you very much,
    valentina

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Budukon UK Holding Page and Animated Flash Logo

Date: 12th February 2009 at 1:53 am | Filed under: portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , , , ,

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I have created an animated logo in flash for the Budokon UK holding page. Using their existing logo I added a shine effect that moves accross the logo every couple of seconds. The fade-in on the logo is done using a combination of the blur filter and an alpha fade, based on the martial arts philosophy of focus leading to clarity!

Check it out: www.budokonuk.com

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New Look for Lazer’s Website

Date: 10th February 2009 at 5:34 pm | Filed under: blog, portfolio | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

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I have updated Lazer's site, the main change was reversing the background and text colours from white text on black to black text on white. I would say the effect is more positive than negative though ;)

Check it out: www.lazersonic.com

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ARTANOID WEBSITE

Date: 4th February 2009 at 2:17 am | Filed under: blog | Author: Sam Burdge | Tags: , , ,

Artanoid is a Flash remake of the original classic arcade game Arkanoid. It was created by 76 Creative web design studio. Complete each level to reveal a different fine art masterpiece, while enjoying a library music soundtrack and old-school arcade sound effects.

Check out the new Artanoid Game webpage. www.artanoid.com

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